stamen design maps There’s been talk of Apple ditching Google Maps in favor of some rather unattractive proprietary tiles allegedly laid over OpenStreetMap data .

It has not been easy to make maps look cool. Enter Stamen Design, perhaps the leading creator of cool-looking maps. And they've built a new tool they call MapStack to bring their methods to the ...

Designers at data visualization house Stamen have created a very cool compromise for digital maps. It’s a watercolor-like skin for any OpenStreetMap project, and it’s totally remarkable.

We’ve seen some colorful map mashups in the past, like Hypercities and HeatMap, but few are as abstract and beautiful to look at as Stamen Design’s Pretty Maps. The aptly-named app pulls sets ...

Nokia’s HERE maps go from 3-D virtual realities to new aesthetic wonderlands ... “Maps were often used not just for navigation but for exploration,” Stamen CEO Eric Rodenbeck tells Co.Design.

Oakland and its parks. The last few years have seen an explosion in photo editing. In a pre-digital era, changing the tone and feel of your photographs was for professionals. Photoshop made it ...

Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA. The precise center of Silicon Valley when it was the most important manufacturing region on Earth is now home to ...

Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA. EDIT by designjunction will take place during the Salone del Mobile from 9-13 April 2014.

The Stamen guys are here at Where 2.0 to show off two new mapping projects they’ve created using Flash. Stamen’s Shawn Allen and Tom Carden debuted Trulia Hindsight (see […] Skip to main content ...

Stamen, one of the leaders in the field of data visualization and mapping, was just recognized by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York with a 2017 National Design Award for ...